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050 00 $aRM301$b.D789 1995
060 10 $aQV 11.1 D794 1994
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245 00 $aDrugs and narcotics in history /$cedited by Roy Porter and Mikulás Teich.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axii, 227 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. The opium poppy in Hellenistic and Roman medicine / John Scarborough -- 2. Exotic substances: the introduction and global spread of tobacco, coffee, cocoa, tea, and distilled liquor, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Rudi Matthee -- 3. Pharmacological experimentation with opium in the eighteenth century / Andreas-Holger Maehle -- 4. The regulation of the supply of drugs in Britain before 1868 / S. W. F. Holloway -- 5. Das Kaiserliche Gesundheitsamt (Imperial Health Office) and the chemical industry in Germany during the Second Empire: partners or adversaries? / Erika Hickel -- 6. From all purpose anodyne to marker of deviance: physicians' attitudes towards opiates in the US from 1890 to 1940 / Caroline Jean Acker -- 7. Changes in alcohol use among Navajos and other Indians of the American Southwest / Stephen J. Kunitz and Jerrold E. Levy -- 8. The drug habit: the association of the word 'drug' with abuse in American history / John Parascandola.
505 8 $a9. Research and development in the UK pharmaceutical industry from the nineteenth century to the 1960s / Judy Slinn -- 10. AIDS, drugs, and history / Virginia Berridge -- 11. Anomalies and mysteries in the 'War on Drugs' / Ann Dally.
520 $aThis collection of new essays explores the complex and contested histories of drugs and narcotics in societies from ancient Greece to the present day.
520 8 $aThe Greek term pharmakon means both medicament and poison. The book shows how this verbal ambivalence encapsulates the ambiguity of man's use of chemically-active substances over the centuries to diminish pain, fight disease, and correct behaviour. It shows that the major substances so used, from herbs of the field to laboratory-produced synthetic medicines, have a healing potential, and have been widely employed both within and outside the medical profession.
650 0 $aDrugs$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009123852
650 0 $aPharmacology$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106001
650 2 $aPharmaceutical Preparations$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004364Q000266
650 2 $aNarcotics$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009294Q000266
650 2 $aDrug and Narcotic Control$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004335Q000266
650 2 $aSubstance-Related Disorders$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019966Q000266
650 2 $aDrug Industry$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004345Q000266
700 1 $aPorter, Roy,$d1946-2002.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80082361
700 1 $aTeich, Mikuláš.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81004014
852 00 $boff,hsl$hRM301$i.D789 1995